Business digest: Early Learning Coalition hosting open house

The Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida invites the community to attend an open house and one year anniversary event at its new location on Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m at 2675 Winkler Avenue, Suite 300, in Fort Myers.

The open house is designed to educate the community on the many services available to families through the coalition and to provide agency partners with a tour of the new facility. Services include Voluntary Pre-K enrollment, eligibility determination for child care subsidy, child care quality assessments, hearing and vision screenings, child care resource and referral services and more.

Board members will be on hand to answer questions about the organization, its services and goals for the future. Light refreshments will be served.

For information, visit elcofswfl.org.

MicroEnterprise graduation today

The Goodwill Southwest Florida MicroEnterprise Institute will graduate its latest class today. The ceremony will take place at the Southwest Florida Enterprise Center, 3903 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Fort Myers

The training program helps entrepreneurs start new ventures and grow small businesses. Graduates complete a 12-module business and management training course over the course of six weeks, and work with mentors who are successful businesspersons. Coaches for the most recent session were Eric Granham and Terri Sobeck. Ingrid Molina facilitated the class.

Entech hires senior systems engineer

Entech Computer Services has hired Charlie Wiener as a senior systems engineer. In his new role, he will be responsible for resolving escalated service issues, coaching other engineers, engineering and implementing complex projects, and maintaining and overseeing the technology of his assigned accounts.

Wiener has been in the IT industry since 1985, is Microsoft MSCE certified, and has a computer engineering degree from Cal State Northridge.

Hodges names member to foundation board

Hodges University named Gary Trippe to its foundation board.

Trippe was the co-founder of the Oswald, Trippe and Company insurance agency, managing director of BB&T-Oswald Trippe and company, and co-founder and director of Disabled Veteran's Insurance Careers Inc., a nonprofit organization established in 2011.

Attorney appointed to technology panel

Laird A. Lile, a wills, trusts and estates attorney in Naples, has been reappointed to the Florida Courts Technology Commission by Chief Justice Ricky Polston. Lile, whose appointment continues through June 2016, was first appointed in 2010.

The commission was established as a permanent judicial branch commission to oversee, manage and direct the development and use of technology within the judicial branch under the direction of the Florida Supreme Court.

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Business digest: Early Learning Coalition hosting open house

The Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida invites the community to attend an open house and one year anniversary event at its new location on Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m at 2675 Winkler Avenue,